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Fund for Gender Equality

The Fund for Gender Equality is the only global fund that is exclusively dedicated to women’s economic and political empowerment. This partnership between UN Women, and regional, national and local women’s organizations and governments is an innovative approach to advancing women’s empowerment as an essential part of realizing rights, accelerating poverty alleviation and advancing sustainable development.

The Fund is based on a model in which women implement their own programmes in their own countries based on their priorities with direct multi-year grants of up to US $1 million and technical support.The Fund provides two types of grants to women’s organizations and governmental agencies that contribute to two of UN Women’s critical strategic and thematic priorities.

Women’s economic empowerment – The objective is to increase women’s access to and control over decision-making, land, technology, credit, livelihoods and other means of production and social protection..

Technology Grants
The Kenya ICT Board is pleased to announce that the second round of the Tandaa Digital Content Grant Call for Proposals is now open.

Companies and individual teams with innovative ideas that use web and mobile phone technology are invited to submit their proposals for a chance to be awarded a grant of $10,000 - 50,000.

The objective of the grant is to stimulate ICT innovation and creativity while promoting economic growth in the sector. By supporting tech-entrepreneurs with the funds they need to successfully take their products to market, the Tandaa Grant hopes to grow the number of relevant and local web and mobile applications available to Kenyans.  

Grant Overview

Call for proposals:
  • July 21 - August 22, 2011
Grant amount:
  • Individuals: $ 10,000
  • Companies: $ 50,000
  • Matching grant for established companies: $ 150,000 
Number of grants to be awarded in 2011: 
  • At least 40
Eligibility: 
  • Kenyan citizens
  • Companies registered in Kenya
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For more information visit: www.ict.go.ke



IPO48 2011 @iHubNairobi in August!

About

You apply to the event by filling out a personal application form on IPO48.com. This will automatically make you a user of the HumanIPO network.
After registration you need to create a start-up on the IPO48 platform. If approved, you can bring max. two co-founders with you to the the event.
You will now be engaged by IPO48 online mentors, who will challenge and help improve your start-up pitch. Depending on how you interact and the quality of your final version pitch, we will pick max. 15 teams to participate at least  8 days before the event.
If you do not want to pitch a start-up idea, you can join one after registration. You will be able to indicate different start-ups on the IPO48 website - the kind you could see yourself joining at the event.
Important: Only the start-ups that are approved online will be allowed to pitch at the event.

Agenda

Friday evening, Aug 12 - event starts @iHub, Nairobi
Teams present their 90 sec pitch and find the participants they would like to join their start-up for the 48h event.
Saturday, Aug 13
On-site mentors engage and help teams. Work - work - work.
Sunday, Aug 14
More help from mentors and help with the preparation of the final presentations. Final demo, voting and prizes.

Award-winning categories

  • The best team
  • Most likely to get funded
  • Best presentation
  • Best ‘hustling’ team

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